All Except Three Appeal

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1946, Page 5

All Except Three Appeal

Press Assn-

BRITISH HANGMAN ARRIVES

By Telegraph

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Received Monday, 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 6. The British hangman, Pierrepoint,j*has arrived ai; Nuremberg to ca'rry out the executions of the condemried Nazi leaders, reports the Sunday Times. Two American sergeants will assist him. When the deadline for the apDeais for clemency was reached, kalterbrunner, Speer and von Schirach were the only convicted Nazi leaders not to appeal. The Holy See appealed from Rome for clemency on behalf of Frank who became a convert to the Catholic religion while in Nuremberg gaol. Schacht today remained with friends in his apartment in Nuremberg, but Fritsche went walking. He said nobody recognised him. Both tomorrow must apply to the local police headquarters for identity cards, without which they cannot secure rations. They must, in applying, conform with the normal practice of detailing their connection with Nazism. Von Papan, while waiting for ihe resuli of his application to live at Stockhausen, in the British zone, remained in prison. Von Papen has issued a written statement, declaring that he was ready to place hiraself at the disposal of any Allied or German authority who wishes to examine nis political record, providea he is allowed to proceed to the British zone. The American News Service states F ritsche this morning tried to leave the house to surrendel- to the chief of the Nuremberg police. The German police let him through but the American military police stopped hjm. After receiving instructions not to arrest Schacht and Fritsche, the President of the Nuremberg district police went to the two houses to pass on instructions to the police. It is officially announced that Schacht and Fritsche are at liberty pending trial by the Nuremberg Denazificatioii Board and would be aiven the protection of the German police if so desired. Both men have been officially told that they are free to come and go as they please without interference from either German or American police. Raeder is petitioning the Alhed Control Council to have 1ns sentence of lite imprisonment changed to sentence of death, says Reuters Nuremberg correspondent. The oetition will arrive in Berlin tomorrow-.' Raeder is reported to have said that he would prefer a soldierly death to languishing in prison. The Allied Control Council secret.ariat in Berlin stated that it has 110 knowledge of a plea for clemencTr by the Pope for Frank. The Associated Press says that Frank's counsel at Nureniberg stated that Cardinal Faulliaber. of Bavaria, had interceded for Frank with the Vatican, and had _ obtained the Pope's intercession with the Control Council. , , The Times' Prague correspondent says that the Czechoslovak authorities have decided not to claim for von Neurath's extradition. Czechoslovakia will respect the Nuremberg Tribunal's verdict, to which 4Jzech documents were contributed. A Pivtoria message reports that the leading Transvaal Nationalists, Ivlr. J. C. Strydom, and General J. G Kemp, have associated themselves with an appeal by the Dutch keformed Church (the biggest Al'rikaans' religious order) for clemency for those convicted at Nuremberg. Mr. Strydom and General Kemp stated that they were prompted by human and Christian principles, and also blood ties with European nations, and a desire to achieve a better spirit in Eurolie.